Senior Data Platform Engineer: Spark/Scala, AI-Driven

CrowdStrike; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Wellness programs

Vacation and holidays

Parental and adoption leave

Professional development opportunities

Employee networks

Volunteer opportunities

Vibrant office culture

World-class amenities

Job summary

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London to build ultra-scale data platforms using Java microservices and Spark/Scala data processing. You will work with Flink, Kubernetes, and AWS-native tooling to deliver threat analytics and insights.

Based in London, you will join a team delivering high-scale data pipelines, querying capabilities, and state-of-the-art analytics with equity and extensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience across backend/cloud development and data platform engineering.
• 5+ years building data platform products with Spark, Flink, Iceberg, or comparable tools in GCP.
• 5+ years of programming with Java, Scala, or Kotlin.
• Experience applying AI to improve decision-making and workflows.
• Proven end-to-end feature/product ownership with vague specs.
• Strong knowledge of algorithms, distributed systems, and SDLC.
• Experience building large-scale data/event pipelines.
• Proficiency with relational SQL and NoSQL databases (Postgres/MySQL/Cassandra/DynamoDB).
• Test-driven development discipline.
• Proficiency with Linux administration tools.
• Ability to work effectively with remote teams.
• Go, Pinot/OLAP databases, Iceberg, Kubernetes, Jenkins, Parquet, Protocol Buffers or gRPC are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Write highly fault-tolerant Java code within Spark to produce platform products for data insights.
• Design, develop, and maintain ultra-high-scale data platforms processing petabytes of data.
• Participate in technical reviews and help develop new features and stability.
• Improve efficiency and reduce latency of high-performance services.
• Research and implement efficient ways for users to query data and extract results.
• Contribute to end-to-end systems from processing to data storage to tooling.

Skills

Backend/Cloud

Data platform engineering

Java

Scala

Kotlin

Go

Distributed systems

TDD

Linux

SQL/NoSQL

Spark

Flink

Iceberg

gRPC

Kubernetes

Parquet

Protobuf

Remote collaboration

Tools

Jenkins

GCP

AWS

Kubernetes

Parquet

Iceberg

gRPC

Job description

CrowdStrike is seeking a Senior Software Engineer in London to build ultra-scale data platforms using Java microservices and Spark/Scala data processing. You will work with Flink, Kubernetes, and AWS-native tooling to deliver threat analytics and insights.

Based in London, you will join a team delivering high-scale data pipelines, querying capabilities, and state-of-the-art analytics with equity and extensive benefits.